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“Nobody was going to freak out. We said, ‘This is going to get done. We just need to find the right person to join the family.’ And we got Steve Vai, thank God”: How the virtuoso Vai put the sizzle into the last big hair metal album of the ’80s

Tuesday July 1, 2025. 08:58 AM , from Keyboard Magazine
And he wasn't even supposed to be on the record in the first place
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